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Biography So Yong Kim is a filmmaker, musician, and artist who works in partnership with her husband Bradley Rust Gray.
So Yong Kim was born and raised in Pusan, Korea, then immigrated to the United States when she was twelve. She studied painting, performance, and video art and earned her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. So Yong Kim is a recipient of the New York Foundation’s Video Artist Grant, Puffin Artist Grant, the MacDowell Colony Fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sleipnir Artist Travel Grant, and others. She has exhibited her installations and films/videos throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Her short film, A BUNNY RABBIT featured cinematography by Christopher Doyle.
Kim produced Bradley Rust Gray's first narrative feature, SALT, in 2003, which won four international awards and was released on the Sundance Channel. She is set to produce his second feature, JACK & DIANE, scheduled to shoot in the summer 2006.
Most recently, So Yong has completed her first feature, IN BETWEEN DAYS, which she wrote and directed. The film has been selected for Dramatic Competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and has been invited to the 2006 Berlin Film Festival’s International Forum for New Cinema. She is in development with her second feature, TREELESS MOUNTAIN, which was featured at the 2005 Pusan Promotion Plan and was selected for the 2006 Sundance Writer’s La Source Open the link | |
KIM So-yong's "Treeless Mountain" premieres at Toronto (Source)
Major Korean Films Offered With English Subtitles (Source)
"West 32nd" Breaks Down NY Koreatown (Source)
Director Espouses Intuition in Filmmaking (Source)
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 Korean-American director KIM So-yong's "Treeless Mountain" has been selected by Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it will make its world premiere. Her feature debut film, "In Between Days", was selected for the screenings at Berlin, Toronto, Sundance and Pusan International Film Festival(PIFF) and was supported by Korean Film Council (KOFIC) for Korean Filmmakers participating in international film festivals and independent film awards.
"Treeless Mountain" is about a summer of two sisters who have no choice but to spend it with their alcoholic aunt. The story is semi-autobiographical.
"In Between Days" portrays a young Korean girl in the U.S. as she struggles with life in a foreign country and her feelings for a Korean-American friend.
At last year's TIFF, LEE Myeong-se's "M" was selected and was praised for his technical and visual achievements.
This year's edition of TIFF will run from September 4th to 13th.
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
CGV Yongsan in central Seoul will devote a screen to the exclusive showing of popular domestic movies with English-language subtitles, an unprecedented move by a movie theater.
"It's to serve the many foreigners in Korea who want to watch Korean films. They won't have to wait for DVDs with English-language subtitles anymore", Chong Choe from CJ Entermatinment's International Strategy team told The Korea Times.
The country's largest motion picture studio, CJ Entertainment and multiplex theater giant CGV have teamed up for this long-term project, and will begin with "A Man Who Was Superman", starring high-profile actors Jeon Ji-hyeon (`My Sassy Girl's" Gianna Jeon) and Hwang Jeong-min ("Happiness"). Coming to CGV Yongsan Jan. 31, it will have regular showings for the entire duration of the film's run in Korea.
For the time being, there will be seven showings per day through Feb. 4. "That's a lot of showings, and we plan to maintain this for the ...| More |
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
It gets down-and-dirty like the gritty streets of New York. In "West 32nd", Korean-American director Michael Kang gives the classic detective genre a fresh twist as he tells the untold story of a Korea that exists in the heart of the Big Apple.
West 32nd Street is the geographic location of New York Koreatown (K-town) near the Empire State Building. But even those who are familiar with the "noraebang" (karaoke), stationary stores and "seoleongtang" (Korean beef broth) restaurants lining the strip will be shocked to know that there lies a whole new world beneath it all -- where Korean gangsters and "organized" mayhem reign.
While snippets of Koreatown have began to appear (fleetingly) as an exotic backdrop in Hollywood films like "Collateral" (2004) and "Shoot 'Em Up" (2007), it remained a relatively unexplored territory, and "West 32nd" breaks it down, once and for all.
In the dark corner of K-town, a bar owner Jin-ho (Jeong Joon-ho) is shot t...| More |
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 By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
The script usually plays an integral part of filmmaking, but it is virtually non-existent for internationally acclaimed director Kim So-yong. For the 39-year-old, intuition, spontaneity and creating everything from scratch with amateur actors are the special ingredients.
The Korean-American made an international breakthrough with her first film "In Between Days" (2006), winning awards at the Sundance Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival among others. She is now back in Korea for her next project "Treeless Mountains", with support from the Cannes Cinema Foundation.
"You always have to keep (gut feeling and intuition). It's like natural instinct. Sometimes I think people forget it because you're trained to behave in certain ways, trained to fit into society... But I think it's really important for the creative process to keep your sense of intuition", she said in an interview with The Korea Times at a cafe near Hongdae, northern Seo...| More |
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The 8th Seoul International Film Festival opening Sept. 6 will be attended by many world renowned directors.
Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase, who received the Grand Jury Prize at the 60th Cannes festival, will visit Korea for the first time. Her film 'The Forest Of Mogari' is the festival's opener. After the screening, she will talk about her film and career in an interview with Korean documentary director Kim So-yong.
Hong Kong director Alan Chan who worked as technical supervisor for the Hollywood blockbusters 'Titanic' and 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' will also visit Seoul with his 'Postcards from the Future', which is jointly opening the festival.
Other guests include Ines de Oliveira Cezar, who directed the closing film 'Foreigner', Pedro Aguilera from Spain, Iglika Triffonova from Bulgaria, the "father of Spanish short films" Javier Rebollo, rising Chinese director Yang Li and Scott Dacko from the US.
The Seoul Film Festival will continue through Sept. 12 a...| More |
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